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The Department of Defense says a Marine from Goffstown, N.H., has been killed in Afghanistan.

Twenty-two-year-old Cpl. Philip Gerald Eichner Charte died on Tuesday. The Defense Department said he died while supporting combat operations in the Helmand Providence in Afghanistan.

Charte was part of a Marine battalion based out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. The Marine Corps said he was not married.

Charte graduated from Goffstown High School in 2007.

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